As Cringley said a few months ago, the bells got the advantage of offering long distance in their region if they opened up their lines for broadband. Given the drop in long distance prices, the bells have no incentive to open their lines to competition.
Having a fully open market would be a nice idea, but that's just it - an idea. The Bells have no incentive to open their lines, thus all the DSL companies fall flat on their face (with a bit of help from the Bells) and the Bells can then offer their DSL service. The Bells own the wires, the Bells ran the wires, the Bells can do whatever they want with them. If you want anything different, you either have to buy service from the Bells, which is happening now and obviously failing, or regulate the Bells and force them to open their lines.
I'm within 3 miles of one oh the high-tech centers of the universe - rt 128 in boston. I am about 3 miles (officially, 18k feet) from the CO, thus DSL will not be available. Verizon probably won't be building a new CO to get me DSL service. I'm stuck with the "name of the month" cable service that used to be MediaOne, then AT&T, now AT&T Broadband, soon to be ??. Remind me how deregulation will change my situation...
Those who wish to keep Dmitry in jail so this can go to court, think for a few minutes. Dmitry did not ask for this, he was unprepared/unaware of the consequences, and he is not a US citizen. Dmitry should go back to his home and be with his wife and children. If he wants to come back here and file civil suits, that's fine.
The best case for proving the DMCA is someone ready to break the law, accept the consequences, and is willing to take the case to court. Are you ready to go to jail for your beliefs and see the DMCA gets overturned? Then go violate the law and be prepared for what happens.
I've seen 57 hits on my cable modem in the past week. That's about double what I saw from the last iteration. The number of sites that have been infected (according to incidents.org) has already passed the last iteration as well.
It would be nice if the press could get some real experts in security and the Internet to talk about this thing, not press-seeking wannabes.
What he's saying is because of the crappy FCC regulations, he can't get local channels on his dish and thus use his TiVo to record the channels. Would Taco pay DirectTV to get the local channels via satellite? I hope so.
In case you think I'm a karma whore, I'm not. I'd just put a link to the web site where I have this posted, but there's no way it will survive the/. effect, and I like my cable modem link as it is.
I've given this idea to a number of people before now, with limited response. Time to bring out the big guns and see what you/. ers think.
The MPAA, RIAA, and closed source software houses have their customers over
a barrel. For many of us, going to the movies, buying or renting a DVD,
getting a CD from your favorite band, or buying a computer game is a way of
getting a source of entertaiment. Unfortunately, purchasing these products
gives companies the ammunition they use to pass laws such as the
DMCA. These
companies can then use these laws to
beat us (the consumers) over the head.
Why do we let them continue? What can we, as consumers, do to keep our money
from being used against us?
The Solution
A possible solution is something you can do every day, starting right now.
Every DVD you buy, every game you purchase, every visit to a movie theater,
every CD you buy, add $5 to the cost. In many cases, this amounts to between
10% (a $50 game) to 50% ($9.99 DVD) of the cost of the item you purchases.
Given the way prices work, the original price from the manufacturer is about
50% of the price you pay, so a $50 game is sold initially for about $25.
Once you pay licenses, royalties, production, etc. there probably is not
much left over that goes to lobbyists or legal. Thus, you are giving a larger
amount of money to defeat these laws than you are "giving" to get them enacted.
What do you do with that $5? Donate it to the organization of your choice.
Currently, the Electronic Frontier Foundataionis in the forefront of these kinds of issues, but you can choose whomever
you like.
What good will your $5 do? Simply put, the EFF needs money. Money to pay for
lawyers, money to educate people why these laws are wrong, money to defend
those accused of crimes that violate the first amendment of the US
Constitution. Since it is effectively
increasing the cost of DVDs, CDs, etc., it will also make you think twice
about your entertainment choices and maybe even save you money over
the long run.
Okay, I have $5. Now what? Save it up. Make a notation somewhere. At the
end of the month, end of the quarter, whenever, add up the notations and send
the appropriate amount of money to the organization of your choice. In many
cases, the money you send is tax-deductible (consult your accontant blah blah)
It's a tradeoff when writing. Fortunately, I was able to pick up some of the concepts that you don't see in other books from the time. PAM and qmail are two excellent examples of this. While the book itself may be older, PAM and qmail work pretty much the same way. Much of what I wrote talking about RPMs and init scripts and the like is also good.
The real tradeoff is that one one hand, you can write everything you know about a subject and get real detailed. But when the version changes, you are very quickly out of date. On the other hand, you can write in general about a topic and get the concepts across. The "shelf life" of such a book is much longer, since the information will give you a base to start from, understand the concepts, then look at the documentation for the latest version. The down side of that is you're no longer being specific, and having to point the reader at various other bits of documentation. It's hard to keep that balance, but I've tried.
This book is almost 2 years old. It's nice to see Slashdot reviewing it, but it is a bit out of date. So please be gentle about how "old" it appears. On the good side, a lot of the concepts are still current.
Even the regular cartoons are butchered. Remember Wile E. Coyote drinking the entire bottle of "earthquake pills"? Your kids won't. How about the fish in "Horton hears a who": "Now I've seen everything *blam*". Not there. At least not the *blam*.
Sad state of affairs.
On the good side, I have seen some anime on cinemax, and "Ghost in the shell" is on frequent circulation on one of the Starz channels.
From http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/200 10 626_amended_felten_complaint.html, Declaratory Relief (Second Cause of Action):
F. A declaration that the DMCA is unconstitutional on its face because it violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
G. A declaration that the application of the DMCA to the publication or presentation of scientific, academic or technical speech, including the publication of computer programs, violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Wrong. I can break into my own home as much or as little as I want to.
Quit splitting hairs. You know what I mean. You can, of course, break into your own house. Though using dynamite might get you some questions from the ATF...
Your reasoning is good, but the logic is flawed. Breaking and entering is a crime, no matter how you do it. That part is true. And so is illegally copying and distributing software or eBooks. What Dmitri was arrested for was announcing "the emperor has no clothes", which never was, nor should be, a crime.
In many locations in the US, having lockpicks is not a crime (source: MIT lockpick guide). HOWEVER, using lockpicks in association with a crime is an additional offense in itself. The same should be true for software.
The reason why most people (businesses) won't make the switch from Windows to Linux is that Linux will take too long to retrain employees. Teaching Linux and OpenOffice in schools is the perfect way to get this training done right the first time.
These students then go off into the world, wondering where OpenOffice is and what this crap software called Word is supposed to do.
If anyone were to take over the role as Indiana Jones, I'd vote for Brendan Frasier.
What you say! The guy from such hits as "Encino Man", "Dudley Do-Right", and "Blast From The Past". Forget it. Go watch him in "The Mummy" and compare that to the (acting) of Raiders. Brendan has the right amount of humor, action, and machismo to pull it off, and do it well. Not to mention he's probably the right age to do it as well.
As soon as someone integrates it into Mozilla! Mozilla does everything I need in a mailer right now except GPG/PGP support:
Good IMAP support (most stable I've seen)
SIMAP and SSMTP support
Graphical (hey, if I'm useing X, may as well use it)
Cross platform (can use it under Windows or Linux)
..while I'm at it, roaming profile support in mozilla would be nice too.
I've had the Barricade (7004WBR) for about 6 months now. Has all the cool stuff: NAT, 3 10/100 ports, LPR-compliant parallel port, DB-9 serial for analog modem failover, and 802.11b (64 bit WEP).
The cool thing about it is that the Barricade is pretty OS-agnostic. The only real requirement is a browser with javascript to configure it. Once configured, you can update the BIOS from the web, FTP, or through a windows app. SMC keeps releasing new versions of the BIOS, and it's worked pretty well for me the entire time.
Cost at the time was ~$350US, but I think it's dropped some.
You're confusing content with presentation. The web was always about separating the two out....well..for a while anyway. Today, you can still change the colors of links and font sizes and whatnot. But the content is still the same.
Until now. MS is intending on changing the content of a web page. This is no longer about changing how it looks, they're changing how it acts. Links that you as an author did not want are now popping up in your site, changing the flow of the content. This is very different from changing a font size.
Everyone in the press (counting you, Jon) is so terrified with what MS WILL do, as opposed to what they ARE doing. Competitors get afraid that MS will beat them at their own game they give up and basically hand MS the market they want. Duh!
If you want to complain about what MS IS CURRENTLY doing in terms of products, fine. Everything else (until it ships) is fiction. Their "pipeline initiatives" should be called "pipe dream initiatives", because there's little chance it will see the light of day.
How many windows boxes would you need to buy to compare to a Sun E10k?
And that if you have X Linux boxes running services, you probably need 2X Windows boxes to do the same darned thing (that gui sure eats memory and CPU).
A corporation is an entity separate from its shareholders (which is why people list companies as defendents of lawsuits and not the shareholders). The shareholders have rights, but no more rights than non-shareholders.
Slashdot Mirror
As Cringley said a few months ago, the bells got the advantage of offering long distance in their region if they opened up their lines for broadband. Given the drop in long distance prices, the bells have no incentive to open their lines to competition.
Having a fully open market would be a nice idea, but that's just it - an idea. The Bells have no incentive to open their lines, thus all the DSL companies fall flat on their face (with a bit of help from the Bells) and the Bells can then offer their DSL service. The Bells own the wires, the Bells ran the wires, the Bells can do whatever they want with them. If you want anything different, you either have to buy service from the Bells, which is happening now and obviously failing, or regulate the Bells and force them to open their lines.
I'm within 3 miles of one oh the high-tech centers of the universe - rt 128 in boston. I am about 3 miles (officially, 18k feet) from the CO, thus DSL will not be available. Verizon probably won't be building a new CO to get me DSL service. I'm stuck with the "name of the month" cable service that used to be MediaOne, then AT&T, now AT&T Broadband, soon to be ??. Remind me how deregulation will change my situation...
Those who wish to keep Dmitry in jail so this can go to court, think for a few minutes. Dmitry did not ask for this, he was unprepared/unaware of the consequences, and he is not a US citizen. Dmitry should go back to his home and be with his wife and children. If he wants to come back here and file civil suits, that's fine.
The best case for proving the DMCA is someone ready to break the law, accept the consequences, and is willing to take the case to court. Are you ready to go to jail for your beliefs and see the DMCA gets overturned? Then go violate the law and be prepared for what happens.
I've seen 57 hits on my cable modem in the past week. That's about double what I saw from the last iteration. The number of sites that have been infected (according to incidents.org) has already passed the last iteration as well.
It would be nice if the press could get some real experts in security and the Internet to talk about this thing, not press-seeking wannabes.
What he's saying is because of the crappy FCC regulations, he can't get local channels on his dish and thus use his TiVo to record the channels. Would Taco pay DirectTV to get the local channels via satellite? I hope so.
In case you think I'm a karma whore, I'm not. I'd just put a link to the web site where I have this posted, but there's no way it will survive the /. effect, and I like my cable modem link as it is.
/. ers think.
I've given this idea to a number of people before now, with limited response. Time to bring out the big guns and see what you
The MPAA, RIAA, and closed source software houses have their customers over a barrel. For many of us, going to the movies, buying or renting a DVD, getting a CD from your favorite band, or buying a computer game is a way of getting a source of entertaiment. Unfortunately, purchasing these products gives companies the ammunition they use to pass laws such as the DMCA. These companies can then use these laws to beat us (the consumers) over the head. Why do we let them continue? What can we, as consumers, do to keep our money from being used against us?
The SolutionA possible solution is something you can do every day, starting right now. Every DVD you buy, every game you purchase, every visit to a movie theater, every CD you buy, add $5 to the cost. In many cases, this amounts to between 10% (a $50 game) to 50% ($9.99 DVD) of the cost of the item you purchases. Given the way prices work, the original price from the manufacturer is about 50% of the price you pay, so a $50 game is sold initially for about $25. Once you pay licenses, royalties, production, etc. there probably is not much left over that goes to lobbyists or legal. Thus, you are giving a larger amount of money to defeat these laws than you are "giving" to get them enacted.
What do you do with that $5? Donate it to the organization of your choice. Currently, the Electronic Frontier Foundataionis in the forefront of these kinds of issues, but you can choose whomever you like.
What good will your $5 do? Simply put, the EFF needs money. Money to pay for lawyers, money to educate people why these laws are wrong, money to defend those accused of crimes that violate the first amendment of the US Constitution. Since it is effectively increasing the cost of DVDs, CDs, etc., it will also make you think twice about your entertainment choices and maybe even save you money over the long run.
Okay, I have $5. Now what? Save it up. Make a notation somewhere. At the end of the month, end of the quarter, whenever, add up the notations and send the appropriate amount of money to the organization of your choice. In many cases, the money you send is tax-deductible (consult your accontant blah blah)
e-mail me for more informationIt's a tradeoff when writing. Fortunately, I was able to pick up some of the concepts that you don't see in other books from the time. PAM and qmail are two excellent examples of this. While the book itself may be older, PAM and qmail work pretty much the same way. Much of what I wrote talking about RPMs and init scripts and the like is also good.
The real tradeoff is that one one hand, you can write everything you know about a subject and get real detailed. But when the version changes, you are very quickly out of date. On the other hand, you can write in general about a topic and get the concepts across. The "shelf life" of such a book is much longer, since the information will give you a base to start from, understand the concepts, then look at the documentation for the latest version. The down side of that is you're no longer being specific, and having to point the reader at various other bits of documentation. It's hard to keep that balance, but I've tried.
No really, I'm Mark.
:)
This book is almost 2 years old. It's nice to see Slashdot reviewing it, but it is a bit out of date. So please be gentle about how "old" it appears. On the good side, a lot of the concepts are still current.
If you want something more up to date, please check out the Computer Based Training CD that I did. It's only about a year old, but don't worry, that will get updated too
Even the regular cartoons are butchered. Remember Wile E. Coyote drinking the entire bottle of "earthquake pills"? Your kids won't. How about the fish in "Horton hears a who": "Now I've seen everything *blam*". Not there. At least not the *blam*.
Sad state of affairs.
On the good side, I have seen some anime on cinemax, and "Ghost in the shell" is on frequent circulation on one of the Starz channels.
It'll be nice to use a graphical mail reader that supports SIMAP and SSMTP and PGP/GPG.
From0 10 626_amended_felten_complaint.html, Declaratory Relief (Second Cause of Action):
http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/20
F. A declaration that the DMCA is unconstitutional on its face because it violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
G. A declaration that the application of the DMCA to the publication or presentation of scientific, academic or technical speech, including the publication of computer programs, violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Wrong. I can break into my own home as much or as little as I want to.
Quit splitting hairs. You know what I mean. You can, of course, break into your own house. Though using dynamite might get you some questions from the ATF...
Your reasoning is good, but the logic is flawed. Breaking and entering is a crime, no matter how you do it. That part is true. And so is illegally copying and distributing software or eBooks. What Dmitri was arrested for was announcing "the emperor has no clothes", which never was, nor should be, a crime.
In many locations in the US, having lockpicks is not a crime (source: MIT lockpick guide). HOWEVER, using lockpicks in association with a crime is an additional offense in itself. The same should be true for software.
Either that, or something similar to DARE in the US:
"Hey kids, do any of your parents or friends have MP3 players? They're not bad people, just doing a bad thing..."
Bull pucky. *honks your nose*
The reason why most people (businesses) won't make the switch from Windows to Linux is that Linux will take too long to retrain employees. Teaching Linux and OpenOffice in schools is the perfect way to get this training done right the first time.
These students then go off into the world, wondering where OpenOffice is and what this crap software called Word is supposed to do.
Mechanical legs powered by a chain-saw engine?
The real purpose of Junkyard Wars/Scrapheap Challenge becomes clear....next generation military hardware from a big pile of crap!
"Allright ladies, you wanna-be Marines have to build me a device that will protect your sorry asses using only things you find in the junkyard..."
Now you're just being MEAN. ;)
If anyone were to take over the role as Indiana Jones, I'd vote for Brendan Frasier.
What you say! The guy from such hits as "Encino Man", "Dudley Do-Right", and "Blast From The Past". Forget it. Go watch him in "The Mummy" and compare that to the (acting) of Raiders. Brendan has the right amount of humor, action, and machismo to pull it off, and do it well. Not to mention he's probably the right age to do it as well.
Then you would discover that disk 29 out of 30 is bad.
As soon as someone integrates it into Mozilla! Mozilla does everything I need in a mailer right now except GPG/PGP support:
Good IMAP support (most stable I've seen)
SIMAP and SSMTP support
Graphical (hey, if I'm useing X, may as well use it)
Cross platform (can use it under Windows or Linux)
..while I'm at it, roaming profile support in mozilla would be nice too.
I've had the Barricade (7004WBR) for about 6 months now. Has all the cool stuff: NAT, 3 10/100 ports, LPR-compliant parallel port, DB-9 serial for analog modem failover, and 802.11b (64 bit WEP).
The cool thing about it is that the Barricade is pretty OS-agnostic. The only real requirement is a browser with javascript to configure it. Once configured, you can update the BIOS from the web, FTP, or through a windows app. SMC keeps releasing new versions of the BIOS, and it's worked pretty well for me the entire time.
Cost at the time was ~$350US, but I think it's dropped some.
You're confusing content with presentation. The web was always about separating the two out....well..for a while anyway. Today, you can still change the colors of links and font sizes and whatnot. But the content is still the same.
Until now. MS is intending on changing the content of a web page. This is no longer about changing how it looks, they're changing how it acts. Links that you as an author did not want are now popping up in your site, changing the flow of the content. This is very different from changing a font size.
This is classic MS FUD, and you're helping them!
Everyone in the press (counting you, Jon) is so terrified with what MS WILL do, as opposed to what they ARE doing. Competitors get afraid that MS will beat them at their own game they give up and basically hand MS the market they want. Duh!
If you want to complain about what MS IS CURRENTLY doing in terms of products, fine. Everything else (until it ships) is fiction. Their "pipeline initiatives" should be called "pipe dream initiatives", because there's little chance it will see the light of day.
How many windows boxes would you need to buy to compare to a Sun E10k?
And that if you have X Linux boxes running services, you probably need 2X Windows boxes to do the same darned thing (that gui sure eats memory and CPU).
Sorry, thanks for playing.
A corporation is an entity separate from its shareholders (which is why people list companies as defendents of lawsuits and not the shareholders). The shareholders have rights, but no more rights than non-shareholders.